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Bus Defended Against Terrorists Who Want to Reenact the Movie Speed

2008-06-10 12:31:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...bus -- slowing it down to 5 mph and preventing it from restarting once it has stopped. The device has been installed on thousands of local commuter and tourist buses The technology is designed to prevent a terrorist from ramming a bus filled with people and explosives into buildings or tunnels Private bus companies have received millions of...
 
Tags: bus, bus drivers, bus companies, decamp bus lines, buses, tourist buses, technology helps, technology, commuter buses
 
 
 
 
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Random Killing on a Canadian Greyhound Bus

2008-08-04 06:19:40 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...bus last week does this surprise anyone A grisly slaying on a Greyhound bus has prompted calls for tighter security on Canadian bus lines, despite the company and Canada's transport agency calling the stabbing death a tragic but isolated incident Greyhound spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh said bus travel is the safest mode of transportation, even...
 
Tags: security, tighter security, airplane security, greyhound bus, security measures, security anymore, abstract crime statistics, travel, rare risks applies
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: General Commuter-Fi, Microsoft Bus-Fi, Nikon S52c

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2008-04-10 14:15:19 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...buses, and seems to be gradually expanding service Microsoft expands its commuter bus system: The Wi-Fi equipped buses will grow to handle 4,600 riders a day from the current 1,800. A good friend will now have a 5-block walk from his Seattle home instead of a sort of impossible bus commute or a tedious daily drive. Microsoft was late to the...
 
Tags: wi-fi planet runs, wi-fi, internal wi-fi, system, commuter bus system, service, online service, commuter vehicle wi-fi, free bus service
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: iPhone Penetration, Hotspots Undercounted, Warballoon, Cincy Bus-Fi

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2008-08-11 09:49:01 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...business might not feel that it has to secure in the heart of its operations. Errata Security performed distant penetration testing for a client in this way, and found most of their wireless networks unprotected. This is sort of absurd, and I'll be curious what Errata posts on their own site about this project--the scope sounds wrong in the...
 
Tags: wlan hotspots worldwide, wlan hotspots, hotspots worldwide, worldwide, iphone, wireless networks, networks, penetration, internal networks
 
 
 
 
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Risk of Knowing Too Much About Risk

2008-03-06 06:24:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...bus? Don't put your kids on the bus The second way we process risk is analytical: we use probability and statistics to override, or at least prioritize, our dread. That is, our brain plays devil's advocate with its initial intuitive reaction, and tries to say, "I know it seems scary, but eight times as many people die in cars as they do on...
 
Tags: intuitive, intuitive risk processors, analytical, analytical rigor, intuitive response, brains process risk, brains react, images, dreadful images
 
 
 
 
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My Supergeek Moment on the Way to Work

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2007-11-02 22:08:09 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...Bus service , with Snoqualmie Ridge as one of the neighborhoods, I thought that it would be a good opportunity for me to support Microsoft "green" environmental efforts by driving to work less and using this service. One of the cool things about the Connector is that they have wireless connectivity, so you can catch up on email and surf...
 
Tags: microsoft, microsoft recently, weeks ago microsoft, supergeek moment, moment, snoqualmie, bus, snoqualmie ridge, connector bus
 
 
 
 
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Transport-Fi: Wired Reviews Air-Fi; Buses Break out the Internet

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2008-06-12 10:22:29 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...buses: The New York Daily News checks in on the trend to put Internet access via Wi-Fi on board East Coast buses. The article notes that Greyhound's new sidewalk-pickup BoltBus service among corridor cities has provoked the long-running Chinatown buses to bolt on Wi-Fi as well. The Chinatown Bus Association says here that their bus tickets...
 
Tags: connexion service, service, sidewalk-pickup boltbus service, access, cost roughly, internet access, roughly, cost, bus
 
 
 
 
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Pocono Mountain School District "irregularities"

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2008-06-02 12:36:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...bus assignment, free/reduced lunch status, home phone, primary home mailing address, secondary mailing address, parent names, parent phone numbers, emergency contact names, and emergency contact phone numbers Breach Description An apparent cyber break-in of Pocono Mountain School District's computer system has put at potential risk personal...
 
Tags: district, school, contact, promptly contact, school district enrollment, information, personal information, emergency contact names, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Messaging and Event Processing

2008-07-13 09:02:47 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...bus(ESB)to process events, because the transport layer is independent from the event processing layer, theoretically.Mostenterprise-class event processingsystem architectures will use a combination of both asynchronous and synchronous messaging To understand event processing I recommend you turn to network management and the practical use of...
 
Tags: event, smtp event-object, event-object, cyber event-objects, snmp event-object, snmp, event bus, event-objects, event transport
 
 
 
 
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So ... Am I? Maybe I Am!

2008-07-25 08:08:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...businesses called me an idiot for this And you know what? Maybe they are right When I was a sole sysadmin for a small ISP, I didn't share my passwords with management either. They never asked ... but that is not the point. I would not have passed "a bus test", which is "will a business still run if a sysadmin is hit by a bus" [or, "goes...
 
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